At least 20 people killed and 160 wounded as blasts at churches and hotels rock Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday
Blasts hit two churches in Sri Lanka on Sunday, including in the capital Colombo, as worshippers attended Easter services, police said. This photograph from Sri Lankan English newspaper Daily Mirror shows one of the churches impacted in Easter Sunday blasts. April 21, 2019.
More than 20 people have been killed and 280 injured in explosions which hit three churches and three hotels in and around the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, police said Sunday. The blasts hit several high-end hotels and one church in the capital, while two additional churches were targeted outside Colombo, police said.
Police said the blasts hit churches in the north of the capital and in the town of Negombo, just outside Colombo. The nature of the explosions was not immediately clear."Our people are engaged in evacuating the casualties," a Reuters' source said at St Anthony's.A number of injured were carried in ambulances, he added.
A second explosion was reported at St Sebastian's Church in Negombo, a Catholic majority town north of Colombo."A bomb attack to our church, please come and help if your family members are there," said the post in English on the Facebook page of the St Sebastian's Church at Katuwapitiya in Negombo.
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